Fool_on_the_Hill

wow not a single vote for penny lane! I have to say that i've voted for strawberry fields too. I love the music and the lirycs, especially the part "Leaving is easy with eyes closed/Misunderstanding all you see..."

It's on "The First Visist DVD" - the one that was only released last week. There's a scene in their hotel room where John is playing what looks like a small flute with a tiny keyboard attached. He is working on the opening chords (the part that was later played by Paul on the Mellotron keyboard. I couldn't believe it when I heard that - I mean, that was filmed about 3 years before The Beatles started their studio recording of it!

Fool_on_the_Hill

Is that so? You're saying that on their first visit to america John already had in mind strawberry fields and he was playing it? This is very hard to believe (but i believe you). Wow at that time they were playing i want to hold your hand and stuff like that and they had strawberyy fields? There's something wrong here!

[quote by=Fool_on_the_Hill link=Blah.pl?b=songs,m=1077016564,s=15 date=1077178674]Is that so? You're saying that on their first visit to america John already had in mind strawberry fields and he was playing it? This is very hard to believe (but i believe you). Wow at that time they were playing i want to hold your hand and stuff like that and they had strawberyy fields? There's something wrong here![/quote]

I'll try to upload a clip of that track as an MP3 for you if you like. Remember though that John and Paul sometimes had melodies in their heads for years before actually recording them - I'll Follow the Sun, When I'm Sixty Four, One After 909 for example.

In the film clip, you can hear John keep trying to get the chord progression right - mind you, it is rather a strange instument he's playing!

No one has mentioned this before either - on the Let It Be... Naked bonus disc on the "John's Piano Piece" track, you can hear John running through some chords which sound very much like Imagine! John already had the melody of Jealous Guy [Child Of Nature - 1968] so maybe he had a rough version of Imagine in his head too!

So maybe the idea that Strawberry Fields was around as early as February 1964 isn't as far fetched as you might at first think!

I'll try to upload a clip of that track as an MP3 for you if you like. Remember though that John and Paul sometimes had melodies in their heads for years before actually recording them - I'll Follow the Sun, When I'm Sixty Four, One After 909 for example.

In the film clip, you can hear John keep trying to get the chord progression right - mind you, it is rather a strange instument he's playing!

No one has mentioned this before either - on the Let It Be... Naked bonus disc on the "John's Piano Piece" track, you can hear John running through some chords which sound very much like Imagine! John already had the melody of Jealous Guy [Child Of Nature - 1968] so maybe he had a rough version of Imagine in his head too!

So maybe the idea that Strawberry Fields was around as early as February 1964 isn't as far fetched as you might at first think![/quote]

Please let me know if you upload that or let me know what dvd you got it off of so I can go get it,.